Command Your Stormtroopers In Star Wars: Imperial Assault
August 5, 2015 by brennon
Leading other Stormtroopers into battle with his own Villain Pack to expand upon the Twin Shadows Box for Star Wars: Imperial Assault we have Kayn Somos from Fantasy Flight Games...
"Couldn't Hit A Barn Door...NOW YOU CAN!"
Kayn Somos was available as a token within the Twin Shadows box but he not gets a great looking model and a whole bunch of cards showing off his powers.
If you hadn't guessed already Kayn helps boost the effectiveness of your Stormtroopers by giving them focus and pushing them to the max during your turn. This feeds over into the skirmish based game as well so suddenly Stormtroopers might be quite the threat!
Kayn isn't a slouch on his own either, able to blast his way through armour thanks to his ranged ability.
What do you think of him?
"Kayn isn't a slouch on his own either, able to blast his way through armour thanks to his ranged ability..."
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Because it serves as a dual genre game (skirmish battles and dungeon crawl) the skirmish side has a weird troop selection imbalance with the Rebels being character heavy, the Imperials having a good variety (little light on characters), and the Mercenary side having leftovers and only 1 character right now. FFG should make an introductory box set with hero characters that are Imperials with a dungeon crawl campaign, getting you a box of new Rebel troops. 1 for the Mercenary side as well. Its not that different from what they did with the 3 SW RPGs that are all essentially… Read more »
FWIW, love this game! Wish the guys had time to do some videos on it. The battle of hoth vlogs was an big tease for those wanting Imperial Assault coverage.
These Stormtroopers should be able to hit they targets unlike those in movies.
Isn’t this Stormtroopers thing missing their targets a bit of a myth? In the first film, they completely trounce the rebels boarding the corvette, while Obi-Wan, a general from the Clone Wars (a guy who disguises himself as a Jedi), remarks on how good the shots are on the Jawa barge. Luke, Han, Leia et al’s. escape from the Deathstar was all planned by Tarkin, so for that entire sequence, those Stormtroopers must be under orders to miss, so as to allow people to fly off in the Falcon and lead the Empire to the rebel base. However, they’ve got… Read more »
Yes Stormtrooper’s are actually elite troops, until they meet a planet of teddy bears. But that’s on Lucas. Reading the rules for Kayn, groups of Stormtrooper’s are going to be deadly. Add on the Heavy Stormtrooper and they will be even more so. I’m really tempted to get more IA stuff and use Bolt Action for a tabletop war game version of Star Wars
Erroneous on all counts! Obi-Wan’s storytelling and judgment are about as questionable as anything in the whole trilogy. First of all, besides misrepresenting a lot of facts in stories, he was Luke Skywalker’s next door neighbor and never thought it was time to get a start on that jedi training? So when he complements the Stormtroopers shooting up unarmed desert rodent’s sandcrawler, excuse me if I question it! Letting them escape was not the plan the whole time. It was the plan after Vader killed Obi-Wan in all likelihood. It could not have been planned the whole time. Keep in… Read more »
I think you could argue that the plan to let everyone escape came to mind once the prison break started (I think that makes the most sense anyway). It’s really only at that point that the Stormtroopers start firing at the main characters, which again backs up the theory that the Stormtroopers are missing on purpose. Also, doesn’t Obi-Wan die to Vader just as everyone else is getting on the Falcon (i.e. it doesn’t make sense that the plan came about due to the formers death, because they wouldn’t have had time to put the homing beacon on). Regardless, it’s… Read more »
In hindsight, the homing beacon, how/when/why it got onto the ship makes no sense whatsoever. Maybe they didn’t film that scene initially and then everyone realized there was no explanation for how the Empire found the secret Rebel Base. The only alternative is that its standard procedure when a smuggling vessel is found but no people aboard, to put a homing beacon on it, just in case…